Goldthorpe railway station

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Goldthorpe
Location
Place	Goldthorpe
Local authority	Barnsley
Operations
Station code	GOE
Managed by	Northern Rail
Platforms in use	2
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	49,420
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Goldthorpe from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Goldthorpe railway station serves the village of Goldthorpe, in South Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Wakefield Line 23 km (14¼ miles) north of Sheffield railway station. It was opened in 1988.

Although it passed through the three settlements of Goldthorpe, neighbouring Thurnscoe and Bolton-on-Dearne, the Swinton & Knottingley railway only provided one station for the area, at Bolton; both the other settlements were served by stations on other lines. Until 1961 this station was called Bolton on Dearne for Goldthorpe and was served by Sheffield-York stopping services.

By the late 1980s the low demand for York-bound passengers meant that only a handful of stopping trains used the line. South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, responding to increasing demand for Sheffield-Leeds passengers in the area, and a lack of capacity on the Sheffield-Barnsley-Leeds line, sponsored an hourly service via Bolton, and opened brand new stations at Goldthorpe and Thurnscoe.

[edit] Service

Monday to Saturday there is an hourly service to Sheffield southbound and to Leeds northbound. Sundays there is a two-hourly service in each direction

[edit] External links

• Train times and station information for Goldthorpe railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Bolton-on-Dearne		Northern Rail Wakefield Line		Thurnscoe